LUDLOW FOOD CENTRE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-20 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-05-06
Watchouts
Cash
£553K
+11,583.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£3M
-0.1% vs 2024
Employees
126
+0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£21K
+104% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,454,222 | £7,300,350 | |
| Operating profit | -£791,901 | -£39,943 | |
| Profit before tax | -£525,373 | £20,856 | |
| Net profit | -£380,503 | -£1,624 | |
| Cash | £4,732 | £552,850 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,400,043 | £5,418,527 | |
| Net assets | £2,678,793 | £2,677,169 | |
| Equity | £2,678,793 | £2,677,169 | |
| Average employees | 125 | 126 | |
| Wages | £2,256,931 | £2,393,512 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £98,645 | £88,621 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
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Turnover
+13.1%
£6,454,222 £7,300,350
-
Cash
+11,583.2%
£4,732 £552,850
-
Net assets
-0.1%
£2,678,793 £2,677,169
-
Employees
+0.8%
125 126
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Operating profit
+95%
-£791,901 -£39,943
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Profit before tax
+104%
-£525,373 £20,856
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Wages
+6.1%
£2,256,931 £2,393,512
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -12.3% | -0.5% | |
| Net margin | -5.9% | -0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -14.7% | -0.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.17x | 1.17x | |
| Interest cover | -32.67x | -2.00x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- LUDLOW FOOD CENTRE LIMITED 2005-02-07 → present
- CALIBURN LIMITED 2002-05-17 → 2005-02-07
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “following a number of challenging years triggered by the start of the Ukraine War and the associated spike in energy and food prices.”
- “Prudent capital investment will focus on enhancing the customer experience.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DULSON, Drew Richard | Secretary | 2024-07-26 | — | — |
| COOPER, India Harriet, Lady | Director | 2025-10-01 | Sep 1988 | British |
| HILL, Paul Martin | Director | 2024-11-28 | Jan 1968 | British |
| MANNERS, Charles Henry | Director | 2010-11-04 | Oct 1957 | British |
| WINDSOR-CLIVE, David Justin, Honourable | Director | 2005-12-02 | Sep 1960 | British |
| WINDSOR-CLIVE, Robert Other Ivor, Viscount | Director | 2011-09-15 | Mar 1981 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILKS, Paul Leslie | Secretary | 2005-12-02 | 2024-07-26 |
| WINDSOR-CLIVE, Caroline, Lady Windsor | Secretary | 2002-05-17 | 2005-12-02 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2002-05-17 | 2002-05-17 |
| BERRY, Edward Anthony Morys | Director | 2011-10-03 | 2016-01-15 |
| BOYD, Angus Alexander | Director | 2005-12-02 | 2011-04-28 |
| DE HAAN, Archer Anthony | Director | 2005-12-02 | 2023-12-01 |
| EDWARDS, Jonathon | Director | 2016-01-28 | 2024-09-24 |
| WINDSOR-CLIVE, Ivor Edward Other, Earl Of Plymouth | Director | 2002-05-17 | 2023-12-01 |
| WINDSOR-CLIVE, Simon Percy, The Honourable | Director | 2005-12-02 | 2010-11-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earl Of Plymouth Estates (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 103 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-26 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-07-26 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-12 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.